Helen Keller reinvented her life.

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Helen Keller-the miracle of mankind

Helen Keller seems destined to create miracles for mankind, or God sent her into this world to show the dignity and greatness of the disabled to ordinary people. When she was one and a half years old, she suddenly had acute cerebral congestion, and her high fever for several days kept her in a coma. When she woke up, her eyes burned blind, her ears burned deaf, and her dexterous mouth could not speak. From then on, she fell into a dark and silent world and an abyss of pain.

1March 3, 887, which is a very important day for Helen. On this day, the family invited a teacher for her-Miss Anne Sullivan. Anne taught her to write and sign language. When Mr. Janagno of Perkins School for the Blind was surprised to read Helen's complete and true letter in French, he wrote: "No one can imagine how surprised and happy I am. I have always believed in her ability, but it is hard to believe that she has achieved such good results in three months of study. In the United States, it takes a year for others to reach this level. " At this time, Helen was only 9 years old.

However, it is almost impossible for a person to communicate with others in a silent and dark world because every exit has been tightly closed to him. But Helen is a miracle. She went from hell to heaven step by step, but the difficulty of this journey exceeded anyone's imagination. When she learns pronunciation, she needs to use her sense of touch to understand the trembling of her throat and the movement of her mouth when she pronounces, which is often inaccurate. To this end, Helen has to practice her pronunciation repeatedly, sometimes for hours at a time. Failure and fatigue made her haggard, and a strong man shed tears of despair for it. However, she never flinched, worked hard day and night, and finally was able to speak "Dad", "Mom" and "Sister" fluently. The whole family gave her a surprise hug, and even her favorite dog seemed to understand her call and ran to lick her hand.

1894 In the summer, Helen joined the American Association for the Advancement of Language Teaching for the Deaf and was arranged to study mathematics, science, French and German in Humason School for the Deaf. Within a few months, she will be able to talk freely in German. In less than a year, she finished reading the German work William Tell. Teachers who teach French don't know sign language letters and have to dictate; Nevertheless, Helen quickly mastered French and read the novel The Forced Doctor twice. During her stay in new york, Helen made many friends in the literary world. Mark Twain read her wonderful short stories and they established a sincere friendship. Dr. Holmes read her a collection of poems, Rolling Beans, in his quiet home by the Merrimack River. When he read the last two pages, Holmes put a slave statue in her hand. The chain on the crouching slave just fell off, and Holmes said to Helen, "She is the liberator of your thoughts." The doctor refers to Miss Anne. Helen's excitement, beautiful thoughts and feelings about the world, meaningful deep love and down-to-earth pursuit are deeply rooted in her heart like the seeds of spring. Helen said confidently from an early age, "One day, I will go to college! I'm going to Harvard University! " This day has finally arrived. Radcliffe Women's College of Harvard University arranged her entrance examination in a special way. I saw that she skillfully touched the raised braille with her hand and then answered the question with a typewriter. After 9 hours, all subjects passed, and she got excellent grades in English and German. Helen began her college life eagerly.

1June, 904, Helen graduated from Radcliffe College with honors. Two years later, she was appointed as the chairman of the Massachusetts Committee for the Blind and began to do social work for the blind. She receives visiting blind people every day, and she has to reply to letters flying in like snow. Later, she toured all over the United States to promote the implementation of education programs and treatment programs for the deaf and blind. 192 1, the American Foundation for the Blind was finally established. Helen is one of the leaders of this organization, and she has been working hard to strengthen the work of the foundation. In the busy work, she never put down her pen and finished 14 books. My Life, Song of the Stone Wall, out of the dark, Optimism, etc. Have had a worldwide impact. Helen's last work was Teacher, for which she collected notes and letters for 20 years, but all these and three-quarters of the manuscripts were burned in a fire, as well as the Braille library and exquisite craft gifts from various countries. A different person might be disheartened, but Helen learned a lesson from the painful experience and was determined to finish it. She sat quietly in front of the typewriter and began another difficult trek. 10 years later, Helen finished the manuscript. She is very happy that this book is a gift for Teacher Anne, and Teacher Anne is very proud of it.

1956165438+1October 15 The curtain on a plaque erected at the gate of Perkins School for the Blind in America was lifted by Helen with trembling hands, which read: In memory of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Messi. This is not an ordinary plaque, but for those who have written outstanding chapters in the history of human civilization. Indeed, Helen devoted her life to the welfare and education of the blind and won the respect of people all over the world. The United Nations also launched the "Helen Keller" World Campaign. On June 1968, Helen Keller, a deaf-mute blind scholar, writer and educator who wrote a hymn of brilliant life in the history of human civilization, passed away surrounded by flowers. However, her indomitable spirit of struggle and her legendary life will go down in history forever. As the famous writer Mark Twain said, there were two great figures in the19th century, one was Napoleon and the other was Helen Keller.

(Huang Wei compiled according to the relevant information of Jilin Education Information Network)

Discussion and practice of remolding life

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Read the full text first, grasp the article, and then collect relevant information about Helen Keller after class. Discussion: Why does Helen call Miss Sullivan a person who "reinvents her life"?

The purpose of setting this topic is to broaden students' reading horizons on the basis of reading the text, and then deepen their understanding of this article.

"Reshaping life" literally means "Reshaping life and regaining life". But in this article, reshaping life means "the light of love shines on me". It turned out, "I am in that silent and dark world, without tenderness and sympathy." However, under the education of Mr. Sullivan, my soul was awakened, and I once again had "light, hope, happiness and freedom" (the word "light" here is figurative). It was Miss Sullivan who told me to return to nature and understand it. Teacher Sullivan also taught me "what is love". As the author herself said, "It was she who enlightened me with the truth of the world and gave me deep love." In this sense, Mr. Sullivan is a "man who reshapes his life", expressing the author's incomparable love and gratitude to Mr. Sullivan.

Secondly, the author said that the experience of the well room "awakened my soul and gave me light, happiness and freedom". Think about the full text and the author's life experience: why does the author say this? Did you have a similar experience when you were a child?

The purpose of setting this topic is to make students think deeply about the important sentences in the text and do some expansion to broaden their knowledge and deepen their reading experience.

When Helen was one and a half years old, she suddenly suffered from acute cerebral congestion, and her high fever for several days kept her unconscious. When she woke up, her eyes burned blind, her ears burned deaf, and her dexterous mouth could not speak. From then on, she fell into a dark and silent world and an abyss of pain. Because I don't know the outside world, my temper becomes eccentric and I often break into a furious rage. She often throws herself on the ground and screams; Refuse to wash your face after getting up; Being naughty at dinner, Helen wrote about this experience when she was a child: At that time, I felt as if I was tightly held by an invisible hand. So, desperately want to get rid of this bondage. In this regard, this article also describes: "At that time, I was exhausted after weeks of anger and distress." Fang Jing's experience not only made Helen know the specific content of the word "water"-after the author wrote it, she suddenly realized that the word "water" was this cool and wonderful thing flowing in my hand. This is the first time Helen has got the concept of things, which is a leap in thinking. Therefore, the author said affectionately, "The experience of the well room makes me want to learn." Ah! It turns out that everything in the universe has its own name, and each name can inspire my new ideas. I began to look at everything with novel eyes. Back in the house, everything you touch seems to have life. I remembered the doll I broke, groped my way to the fire, picked up the pieces and tried to put them together, but I couldn't. I regret what I have just done, and my eyes are full of tears. This is the first time in my life. "

Love is not tangible, but we can feel it everywhere in our life. In the third part of the text, there are several sentences to discuss what love is, find out and talk about their meanings, or imitate and write a few words.

The purpose of setting this topic is to let students pay attention to evaluating language, accumulating language, using language and being influenced by good feelings.

The sentences discussing "love" in the text are:

"What is love?"

"Is love a flower fragrance?" In Helen's view, love is something that brings people a pleasant and beautiful feeling.

"Is love the sun?" In Helen's view, "There is nothing better than the sun. Its heat makes everything thrive. " Love can give people light and heat and make everything flourish. Obviously, little Helen took love a step further.

"Love is a bit like a cloud in the sky before the sun comes out. You can't touch the clouds, but you can feel the rain. You know, after a hot day, how happy it would be if flowers and the earth could get rain! Love is also invisible, but you can feel the sweetness she brings. Without love, you are unhappy and don't want to play. " Love can't be seen or touched, but it always appears when you need it most. With it, you will be happy and your life will be beautiful. Without it, everything would be dull.

Fourth, Miss Sullivan reshaped Helen Keller's life with her selfless love. Many texts you have read are related to love. Summarize and communicate with your classmates.

The purpose of setting this topic is to let students learn new things around the theme of "love", learn to sort out and summarize, and cultivate students' oral communication ability by means of "communication" to get lessons from it.

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Helen Keller dispelled the darkness of life with the light of perseverance.

Lu Yong

1880 On June 27th, Helen Keller was born in a small town in northern Alabama, USA. Her life has set an example for people to fight against fate.

Helen Keller is a writer and educator admired all over the world. Although fate robbed her of her eyesight and hearing, this woman seized her by the throat with diligence and perseverance. Her name became a symbol of perseverance, and her legendary life became a great spiritual force to inspire people to overcome bad luck.

"If you give me three days of light, the first thing I want to see is my dear teacher."

At the age of one year and seven months, the sudden high fever caused by scarlet fever made Helen blind and deaf, and became a blind, deaf and dumb disabled person. Because the deaf-mute child can't get access to the correct information, the window of the soul is imprisoned, which leads to her bad temper and bad temper. At the age of seven, Anne Sullivan came to her side. She accompanied Helen for half a century and guided her out of endless darkness and loneliness with love and wisdom. The miracle created by Helen in her life is inseparable from this outstanding young educator for deaf children. Helen expressed her love for Sullivan in her masterpiece If you give me three days of light: "If you give me three days of light, the first thing I see is my dear teacher."

On the day when Sullivan went to Helen's home as a tutor, she gave her a doll and slowly spelled the word "d-o-l-l" repeatedly with her finger on Helen's little hand. Helen became interested in this game at once. She imitated the teacher's actions again and again, and began to understand that everything in the world had its own name, and began to know that her name was "Helen Keller". Since then, Helen has learned and mastered French, German, Latin and Greek. Although deaf and blind, she can master five languages. Helen's success is called "the greatest achievement in the history of education".

Helen's "dumb" is caused by hearing loss, and her vocal cords are not damaged. At the age of ten, Helen began to learn to speak. Because she can't hear others and her own voice, she can only feel the movement of her throat and lips when the teacher pronounces, and then imitate and correct her voice thousands of times. When she said "it's really hot" like a normal person for the first time, both she and Sullivan realized that there was no insurmountable difficulty in the face of their tenacious perseverance. In Helen's life, she even took traveling around the world as an important part of her career.

Besides reading, she also likes riding, swimming and boating. She loves the performing arts of drama. With indomitable will, Helen learned to lip-read, and she could hear the short stories recited by Mark Twain with both hands, and completed her studies at Harvard University, a world-famous university, with excellent results. Reading not only makes Helen a knowledgeable scholar, but also cultivates her beautiful mind.

She likes to walk in the forest with the reins, and she also likes to go boating on a moonlit night, and she can tell her direction by the smell of water plants and water lilies. She also likes to ride a tandem bike for a ride, experience strength and speed in galloping, and like to fight wits and bravely in chess matches like boys ... She also loves nature. Although standing in front of Niagara Falls, she can't see the beauty of the world and hear the deafening roar, but she can appreciate the grandeur of the world's largest waterfall from the tremor of the air.

In museums and art shops, Helen can feel the beauty of ancient Greek sculptures with her fingers, just like observing the emotions written on people's faces, and "see" the freshness of Di Anna, the goddess of the moon, and the beauty of Venus from those changing lines. 1937, Helen received special courtesy when she visited Japan, and was allowed to touch the royal art collection and the statue of monk Jian Zhen in China, which was regarded as a national treasure of Japan.

Mark Twain called her and Napoleon the two most outstanding figures in19th century.

After studying with Sullivan for three months, Helen began to try to express her feelings in immature words and wrote the first letter in her life. From April 1902, with the help of Sullivan, she began to serialize her autobiography "The Story of My Life" in an American magazine. The following year, after its publication, it caused a sensation in the American literary world, and was even hailed as one of the two most important contributions of world literature from 65438 to 0902.

Many people don't believe that such beautiful words were written by a deaf and blind person. Although Mark Twain testified for this, it still can't calm people's doubts. However, Helen's achievements in her life give the best answer to this: she published 14 monographs in her life. In the past century, my life story has been translated into more than 50 languages and spread all over the world. Some experts once said that "in terms of literary achievements, it is not inferior to Rousseau's Confessions." If Helen's indomitable perseverance is inspiring, then her love is a precious treasure left to the world. When she first started studying with Sullivan, the clever little Helen easily learned to spell the names of many things around her, but she couldn't understand the very abstract noun "love". The young Sullivan turned her love into unparalleled patience, which enabled Helen to overcome the insurmountable obstacles in the study of blind and deaf students. While learning knowledge, little Helen also learned Sullivan's love. With this love, 10-year-old Helen successfully raised two years' education expenses for a five-year-old deaf-mute child. Maybe from then on, she made up her mind to help all the people in the world who need help like her.

She gives love to the world, and the world returns her lofty honor. 19 19, Helen's story was put on the screen by Hollywood and starred by herself. 1955, she received an honorary degree from Harvard University, becoming the first woman in history to receive this honor.

Since Helen was a child, every American president has invited her to visit the White House. She is also called by the government as one of the 30 outstanding people in the United States who have made outstanding contributions to the country. She won the "Freedom Award" personally awarded by the President of the United States and was praised as a senior citizen of the United States. From 65438 to 0959, the United Nations launched the "Helen Keller" campaign named after her around the world to help deaf children around the world. 1960, The Miracle Creator, which describes her growing experience, won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a movie. In the same year, on the occasion of Helen's eightieth birthday, the American Overseas Foundation for the Blind announced that it would award the International Helen Keller Award to those who have made outstanding contributions to the cause of the blind. 1 June, 9681day, 88-year-old Helen finished her legendary life.

In the process of human development, there are many valuable similarities. People of different colors and systems in the world can draw strength from Helen's story and inspire their fighting spirit. This is because the spirit of fighting against one's own weaknesses regardless of difficulties will always be the spiritual wealth of mankind.

Why did Helen Keller succeed?

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Everyone must know the name Helen Keller! When she was very young, she became deaf, dumb and blind because of a disease. Why is such an ordinary person called the most outstanding woman by Mark Twain? Even people all over the world think so. Her beliefs infected everyone, didn't they? No one would have thought that such an ordinary person, a deaf, dumb and blind disabled person, had learned to speak, write and even see with his hands. Not only that, she also learned to look at one thing or one thing with her heart. I want to ask, what else can we learn as normal people? We just treat these things as slaves and let them do something instinctively. What Helen longs for is how he will catch them if she is given three days of light. And what will we do if we lose three days of light? Just a bunch of people standing there. I don't think it will take us three days, but one day will be enough for us to collect. But what kept Helen going all her life?

The illness inadvertently became the biggest setback in Helen's life, but it made her stronger. Some people may say that this is all caused by her teacher. Then I want to ask you, what's the use of that teacher if Helen keeps sinking like this? Knowledge Helen's strength made her stand up again from the place where she was knocked down by setbacks. Under the careful education of the teacher, such a great woman was born.

Frustration may just be a sign before success. As long as people have confidence, it is not a problem to overcome setbacks, but for others, the arrival of setbacks is like the arrival of nightmares. For them, all this is meaningless. Setbacks may not be taken seriously, just like lotus leaves set off lotus flowers, which will always make the success after setbacks more dazzling.

If success is bright, then setbacks are darkness before the light, but this is only temporary and will not cover the world forever. After all, the light will come. Angels will always protect those who have the courage to overcome difficulties. Escape is a kind of depravity, just stay closer to the devil's direction, stay away from the angel's direction, and keep circulating until you fall into the magic road.

Helen Keller's Spiritual World

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Love sets our hearts free.

Helen Keller said: Swedenburg taught us that love makes our hearts truly free. I can testify to this; When life is imprisoned by condemned loneliness and cannot be freed or loosened, love has the instinct to save. Once people have lively and independent love, they can naturally do more good deeds and help their peers. Love, like a star sent by night, leads us to heaven and opens up countless unexplored will and thoughts hidden in our hearts. Therefore, whenever and wherever we are tested, hit and frustrated, we can finally get out of the predicament that limits us; Life has thus become peaceful and orderly.

This passage attracts our special attention because Helen Keller is a world-famous writer, speaker, politician and a rare human rights fighter. When she was one and a half years old, she became blind, deaf and dumb because of an illness. However, with the growth of years, she gradually accepted the limitations of illness on her body, and she bravely stood up and faced challenges from all sides. Finally, she became a world symbol of overcoming great difficulties and winning spiritual victory.

What kind of great man is this world-famous and energetic Helen Keller? Richard Harriet and Rafe Martin, who wrote the biography of Helen Keller, described it this way: She was made by God with a strong and shiny material, which was originally specially used to make saints. Her friend and patron William Wade called her the embodiment of purity.

Helen Keller has indeed been holding high the banner for those who must arm themselves to resist disappointment and blow. The biggest difference between her and Joan of Arc is that she is fighting an inner war, that is, the human mind. She refused to give in to her inner enemy. As far as she is concerned, resisting despair and disillusionment is the goal of her life. To tell the truth, I have seen the true face of darkness, she wrote, refusing to give in to the influence of paralysis and numbness; In the realm of mind, I will always walk in the light of the rising sun.

The Secret of Helen Keller's Energy Source

Helen Keller's extraordinary life has attracted the attention and attention of quite a few people. Surprisingly, however, the source of her unparalleled strength-religious belief-is little known. Helen Keller's achievements may prove that people are still flexible by their own spiritual strength, and they can also succeed by it. The problem is that people are always human, or have a temper, and they are easy to fall into depression and despair. In order to overcome the weakness and powerlessness of the mind, she relies on a force more effective than personal willpower. She said: I can't imagine that there is no religious belief in my life; Like a living person without a heart.

When she deeply understood and understood the real situation in the afterlife, Helen Keller found her own religious belief. She firmly believes that after death, the life in the spiritual world will be liberated from the bondage of the body. At that time, all kinds of unfulfilled wishes in this life will be met again ... especially the family life she is eagerly looking forward to. She once wrote with great sadness: What kind of comfort in this world can eliminate the pain that I am destined to have no husband and can't taste the joy of having children! Every time I think about the shortcomings of my life, I feel lonely, just like the endless void! But in the next sentence, she immediately broke away from her inner self-pity and sadness with great personality. She said: fortunately, I have always had a lot of things to do, and compared with the past, I have more things to do now. In fact, as in the past, I am still full of confidence in the future; Because I know that one day, in another world, I will be alert and clear; All regrets in this life will be filled and supplemented by glory.

The theological theory that makes Helen Keller's mind particularly comforting comes from Emmanuel Reddenberg, a Swedish scientist and prophet in the18th century. The other world she saw in the illusion gave her new hope for life. We blind people, she wrote, are always glad to know that in this endless and chaotic darkness, there are others who show us the way. We are ecstatic to know that a person with vision talent has also pointed out the way to the brilliant and dazzling soul world for us. For her, Rydenberg's testimony to the afterlife is like the fragrance from God. As for his revolutionary mission, Helen Keller called it a great message. She once wrote: it makes my life thoughts colorful, true and unified; Strengthen my concept of love, truth and service to life; It has always been the strongest and most powerful motivation for me to overcome physical obstacles.

Helen Keller's Religious Belief

How did Oledenberg's profound influence enter Helen Keller's life? Helen Keller didn't grow up in the family of the Sect that Reddenberg joined. Her father is a Presbyterian deacon and is very active in the church; My mother is an Anglican. As for Teacher Ann Sullivan, she comes from a Catholic family. According to Helen Keller, she is not a person with any religious beliefs at all. Although Helen Keller was baptized as a child, she did not receive special religious training. Before she was sixteen, she did not find her inner spiritual sustenance.

At the age of sixteen, Helen Keller discovered Rydenberg's works. After reading it carefully, she was deeply moved and immediately welcomed the new church into her life. The term "new church" was coined by Reddenberg to describe the re-establishment and coronation of God's Christian faith. Later, according to the teaching of Leidenberg, it was also applied to the church movement. Although Helen Keller has never formally joined any church in Leidenberg, the doctrine of the new church is her lifelong belief.

As Helen Keller knows, the new church is not a doctrine, but teaches people to explore the world in a loving way. It is a belief that is not timid and brave; Combining nobility and humility, it preaches the gospel of human fraternity and kindness that God is with people. Helen Keller began to promote the new church very early. Especially after my religious beliefs were announced, I spared no effort to publicize the ideals of the new church to everyone who has ears. 1928, she gave a powerful speech at the national convention of the Ruidenbo Sect held in Washington, encouraging believers to go out of the narrow attitude of religious schools, step into the crowd and spread the gospel to the public.

Although Christianity is the religious path chosen by Helen Keller, the Christianity she believes in definitely belongs to the public and has affinity, just like the God she serves surrounds her arm. The doctrine emphasized by Lai Dengbo supports and confirms the belief that everyone's life is extremely sacred and important, and true religious belief should make people very dignified. With the growth of age, Helen Keller's concept of service life and her religious beliefs are more and more integrated and inseparable. Once, after expressing her condolences to those who were injured in the war, she said: When my hand was on the other exhausted hand, … I felt as if I was attending a sacred religious ceremony.

Helen Keller's last witness

Just before her 80th birthday, Helen Keller, who lives in Westport, Connecticut, asked friends of the American Foundation for the Blind to find a new church pastor for her near her home. After contacting Reverend Clayton Priestner of Ruidenbo Church in new york, Reverend Priestner immediately went to her residence in Aken Ridge. During that visit, Reverend Priestner presided over the Eucharist of Helen Keller.

Seven years later, before gradually completing her life journey, Helen Keller once again focused on the new church. In her will, she made it clear that it would be held in a funeral ceremony in the new church and appointed pastor Priestner to preside over the ceremony. However, after her death, Helen Keller's family refused the services of Reverend Priscilla Turner against their wishes. So her ashes were flown to Washington, D.C., and the funeral was held at the National Cathedral. Reverend Priestner later said that the heart is more meaningful than the external form. The important thing is that helen keller longed for. A ceremony was held for the new church. As for whether others will follow her wishes after her death, it is only an external form, and it is no longer important.

(From Light in the Dark ... Helen Keller's Thought)